The 60 Players Currently Qualified For The 2016 Olympic Golf Event Will Surprise You

The Top 60 players qualified for the 2016 Olympic Golf event is missing some household names.

It's getting closer! Qualification for the 2016 Olympics golf tournament will wrap up on July 11th 2016 and there are several big names missing from the top 60 list.

The magic 60 is determined by an Olympic Golf Ranking list closely related to the world ranking and updated constantly on the IGF website.

The top 15 players in the world qualify except that no more than four players can come from any one country. That leaves world number 9 Jim Furyk and number 10 Jim Furyk out of the tournament, as things currently stand.

The rest of the field will be determined by the world golf rankings, with a maximum of two players per country for countries that don't have more than two players in the top-15.

There's currently no room for Lee Westwood as Justin Rose and Danny Willett make up Team GBR and Graeme McDowell has work to do to dislodge Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry if he wants to tee it up in Rio.

Here's the current top 60 correct as of Jan 4th.

1 Jordan Spieth USA
2 Jason Day AUS
3 Rory McIlroy IRL
4 Bubba Watson USA
5 Henrik Stenson SWE
6 Rickie Fowler USA
7 Justin Rose GBR
8 Dustin Johnson USA
9 Sergio Garcia ESP
10 Adam Scott AUS
11 Branden Grace RSA
12 Hideki Matsuyama JPN
13 Louis Oosthuizen RSA
14 Danny Willett GBR
15 Shane Lowry IRL
16 Martin Kaymer GER
17 Byeong-Hun An KOR
18 Thongchai Jaidee THA
19 Bernd Wiesberger AUT
20 Emiliano Grillo ARG
21 Victor Dubuisson FRA
22 Kiradech Aphibarnrat THA
23 Anirban Lahiri IND
24 Soren Kjeldsen DEN
25 Danny Lee NZL
26 David Lingmerth SWE
27 Shingo Katayama JPN
28 K.T. Kim KOR
29 Francesco Molinari ITA
30 Thorbjorn Olesen DEN
31 Ricardo Gouveia POR
32 Joost Luiten NED
33 Thomas Pieters BEL
34 Miguel Angel Jimenez ESP
35 Alexander Levy FRA
36 Fabrizio Zanotti PAR
37 David Hearn CAN
38 Fabian Gomez ARG
39 Ryan Fox NZL
40 Brendon de Jonge ZIM
41 Alex Cejka GER
42 Graham DeLaet CAN
43 Wu Ashun CHN
44 Mikko Ilonen FIN
45 Hao Tong Li CHN
46 Camilo Villegas COL
47 SSP Chawrasia IND
48 Miguel Tabuena PHI
49 Nicolas Colsaerts BEL
50 Angelo Que PHI
51 Roope Kakko FIN
52 Carlos Ortiz MEX
53 Vijay Singh FIJ
54 Danny Chia MAS
55 Cheng Tsung Pan TPE
56 Jhonattan Vegas VEN
57 Wen-Tang Lin TPE
58 Felipe Aguilar CHI
59 Siddikur Rahman BAN
60 Adilson da Silva BRA

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